New Year's Day Dining
Picks by Elina-Shatkin
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The multitude of moles at East Los Angeles' Moles la Tía might just complete a culinary color wheel: Circle through the menu and you'll find the cheery yellow of the passion fruit mole, the herbaceous green of the finas hierbas mole, the pristine ivory of the velo de novia mole. These sauces don't seem so much cooked as they do composed, every ingredient mindful of its place in the restaurant's oeuvre.
Housing these often extraordinary moles is a dining room with familiar design ideas (a clean and classic terra cotta-colored space), but also a telling aesthetic: On the walls hang landscape paintings and portraits cut with cubist corners, each crafted in a sort of fractured geometry that pairs with chef Rocio Camacho's modern moles.
--Miles Clements, Special to The Times, 1/7/08
Picks by Elina-Shatkin
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TERRIBLE MOLE...No flavor... the only thing good here was the rice and tortillas. Oh and the soup, i believe it was garbanzo. Went with my boyfriend, his...
Heard great things about this restaurant and came with high expectations. Boy, was I disappointed! As a true food lover and native angeleno I know good food...
It is very hard to taste a good mole like it tastes back home, but this place is a refreshing assertion that there is hope on the other side of the river!...
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